Bad news
On Friday, 11 university students were killed when a lorry lost control and crashed into their line taxi as they were heading from the Mekelle city centre back up to the main campus (Arid) in the afternoon.
The university Research Day, planned for Saturday, was cancelled and there are posters up in the city centre with photos of all those who died, many of whom were first years, so have only been in Mekelle for a few weeks.
The incident happened to be on one of the days when all the specialist doctors from Mekelle hospital were (800km) away at a workshop in Addis. Not sure which bright spark thought it a good idea to send the almost the entire cities doctors away at the same time.
Such terrible news. Very sorry to hear that Alex – my thoughts are with the families of those lost. I wish you the best.
Phil
More info in the Sudan Tribune.